Faces In The Crowd Page #5

Synopsis: The elementary school teacher Anna Marchant lives with her boyfriend Bryce in a nice apartment and every now and then she meets her best friends Francine and Nina to drink and talk. When Anna is crossing a bridge to meet Bryce, she sees an infamous serial-killer killing a woman. Anna runs but she is attacked by the killer and she falls off the bridge and hits her head. Anna stays in coma for a week and when she awakes, she learns that she has brain damage followed by Prosopagnosia, a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The police detective Sam Kerrest unsuccessfully tries to force Anna to remember the face of the serial-killer. Now the serial-killer knows that Anna has seen his face, but she is incapable of even recognizing Bryce and her close friends.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Julien Magnat
Production: Millennium Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.8
R
Year:
2011
103 min
276 Views


face blind sh*t.

I can't deal

with it anymore.

Find yourself

another jerk

to wear a tie.

Bryce.

Hello.

Happy birth day, A nna.

Who is this?

D/cfn 't my

number show up?

You really look

drop dread gorgeous

tonight, Anna.

I know your face.

I've seen you before.

You don't know my face.

You don't know

anyone's face.

If I changed my shirt,

you couldn 't tell me

from your own father.

You're the only one

I don't need to

hide from, Anna.

No, no, that wasn't me.

But maybe I'm that guy there,

to your right. To your right.

No, to your right, Anna!

Listen to what I'm saying!

Please don't do this.

You saw me

doing those things.

No one has ever

seen me before.

You're the only one

that can stop me, Anna,

so make it happen!

Or I'll have

to make you smile.

Smile from ear to ear.

Please, don't do this!

Such a pretty smile...

it will make me cry.

I'm calling the police.

Go ahead. I ha ve to go

anyway. Your friend's

growing impatient.

Francine?

Nina?

Francine?

Nina?

Francine!

Fran cine. Fran cine!

What the hell?

Nina. Nina!

Anna? What's happening?

Anna, Anna,

what's happening?

He's here.

He just called me from

my phone. Where's Francine?

She was dancing with

Mr. "12-Out-of-IO"

just a moment ago.

We have to find her.

We have to find her.

He's here.

All right, I'll

call the police.

Francine!

Oh, my God. Nina.

Anna.

Anna!

Set up a perimeter

and comb the area.

I'll deal with

the paperwork.

Okay. You got me.

I confess.

Come on, you're one

scratch away from a

perfect DNA match.

Sam.

What is violet, striped,

bloody and floating

in the crapper?

She wanted to get

married to anyone.

Why didn't

he pick me?

The man she was

dancing with,

did you...

see his face?

No. Only from behind.

Can you

describe him to me?

No.

I'll get somebody

to take you home.

Oh, Nina.

We'll meet tomorrow.

Here. You take care

of yourself, chica.

Your boyfriend is

not answering his phone.

We're still trying

to get a hold of him.

You said you argued.

What was that about?

He found out

that, uh...

I was faking him.

Bryce?

You're standing

on Bryce's jacket.

Sorry.

It's my phone.

He called me

on that phone

before Francine

Is that the jacket

Bryce was wearing

this evening?

Yes, but

No, it's not Bryce.

I know him.

Besides, he called me

that night I was

on the bridge.

That's a little

trick we're gonna

have to ask him about.

Lanyon. Kerrest.

No. He's gone,

but guess what

we just looked in.

So, let me get

this straight.

He strings us

for a year,

and bingo...

we get all this

juicy evidence

in one night?

I'll chew on that

once we get a DNA

sample on this Bryce guy.

I just put out

a warrant for

his arrest.

Until then...

I'm not letting her

out of my sight, okay?

I want her

totally insulated.

I'll talk

to the D. A.

about the tie.

I won't get

anything before Monday.

You know the drill.

I'll have her back

Monday morning.

Do you trust me?

Let's pack your things.

We're heading out

of town.

Rosemary. How are you?

Everyone knows you?

Everyone knows everyone

on Koel Island. Hey.

Good morning.

Just one doctor,

one ATM, one mail box.

It really is another world.

Where are the

other children?

That's the whole school.

Mrs. Hay worth.

She teaches all

the grades together.

She must be

You went there?

Mm-hm.

Didn't turn out

too bad...

till you had

to play football.

They've arrested Bryce.

He denies everything.

He says someone must

have slipped the phone

into his pocket.

We'll know soon enough.

They're testing

his DNA against the tear sample.

Here.

Thank you.

How are you

holding up?

I don't know.

It's not just that

people's faces

have changed.

It's like...

I had to wait...

until I didn't

recognize myself

to know who I really am.

Close your eyes.

That's how you looked

when I first saw you

at the hospital.

Please, don't

open them just yet.

I got a call when

they brought you in.

You were out cold. I looked

down at you like I look down

at Jane Does every day.

I don't know.

It's like

I knew you.

Even though I'd

never seen your face.

I know it sounds

kinda wacko.

As wacko as

not recognizing

your own father.

I can do wacko.

Anna.

Anna.

Calm down, Anna,

it's okay. It's me.

Anna, it's me, Kerrest.

Don't you

recognize me anymore?

You've shaved?

Yes.

Anything that makes the face

stand out, makes it easier

to identify.

Oh, God, I was

such a fool.

Don't.

Don't you get it?

It's not you.

It's just a trick of

my screwed up brain!

You're nothing special.

You're just

another face.

No.

It's you.

It's still you.

It's still you.

Hey, Lanyon.

And they're

absolutely sure?

I'll talk

to you later.

The DNA is negative.

Bryce is not

the killer.

Next time you have

a bad dream, I'll

/'// just

leave you to it.

My dreams.

I can recognize

faces in my dreams.

Hypnotism is like

a carnival mirror.

It distorts the truth

as much as reveals it.

Or it could have

devastating consequences

on your psyche.

That's a risk

I'm willing to take.

On the count

of three...

I want you

to close your eyes...

and travel back

in your memories.

You can rewind...

pause,

fast forward

as you wish.

I'm counting

to three now.

One

two

three.

Anna, I want

you to go back...

to the moment

before your fall.

Is there anybody

there with you?

His face is--

It's hazy.

I can't make out

his features.

Her impairment

is causing a block.

I can't get

through it.

Not even

with hypnosis.

She knows.

She knows

who she is.

Anna? I want you

to fuse the hazy

impression...

with your attacker's face.

Can you tell me

if you've seen

him before?

On the street.

Near your home.

Yes.

Hiya.

Ask her if she

saw him the night

he killed Francine.

Slow the hell down.

I can't read your lips.

The evening

of her birthday.

Anna, was he there

at your birthday?

Yes.

Anna, did you see him

through the two-way mirror

in the line-up?

Yes. He's behind

the mirror.

Who? Who, Anna?

Who's behind

the mirror?

But--

Anna, who is it?

I don't know.

/ don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Hey.

Anna, what is it?

He kissed me.

Oh, God.

Oh, God,

he kissed me.

Anna, are you

all right?

It's okay.

Lydia, I need warrants

on all six perps from

the fast fine-up.

/ want 'em now.

Make yourself at home.

No one knows you're here.

I'll call you when we get 'em.

Be careful.

Once all this is over...

I'm gonna

take you back

to Koel Island.

You promise?

I promise.

What about the DNA?

The tests came back negative.

Four out of six.

None of them is

our guy, Sam.

We're just jerking off here.

Fine, go ahead.

Flush your career

if you want.

You know what I think?

I think you and Tearjerk

Jack have something in common.

You're both in love with

her, and that's the only

reason she's still alive.

- You coming or not?

- I'm gonna check on something.

"The lovers. It's too

late to turn back.

It's time to make

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Julien Magnat

Julien Magnat is a film and television screenwriter and director. He is best known for Bloody Mallory (2002) and Faces In The Crowd (2010). more…

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